Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1932 Edition 02 — Page 1

SENATE GUNS ARE TRAINED ON TAX BILL New Attacks Face Revenue Measure Passed by House 327 to 64. HEARINGS NEXT WEEK Effort Will Be Made to Reinsert Sales Levy; Fight Postage Hike. BT MARSHALL M’NEIL Time* Staff Correanondent WASHINGTON, April 2.—The tax fight shifted to the senate today with proposals to increase surtaxes on the great incomes and to kill the oil and coal tariffs as outstanding issues. Even before the billion dollar revenue bill is sent there from the house which passed it late Friday, the field of senate controversy fairly is well defined. An effort will be made to reinsert the sales tax in the bill. There will be a fight on the special leniency provision given estates of persons who died recently. The new levy on dividends will be opposed, as will the taxes on autos, conveyances and stock transfers. The postage increase alsb is a controversial issue. Senate finahee committee hearings on the bill are to start next week. High Surtaxes Killed The house passed the bill, 327 to 64, after striking out at the last moment the higher surtaxes on the rich, which had been voted in to replace the mild levies proposed by the ways and committee. These surtaxes, affecting the incomes of the big Republican and Democratic campaign contributors and other rich persons, were approved when the house was sitting as a committee ten days ago. But between then and Friday strong opposition arose, and on a record vote, the surtaxes were ousted by a vote of 211 to 178. Party lines were broken on the roll call. Sales Tax Fails Again The effort to re-insert the sales tax failed 235 to 160, with Republicans forming the backbone of the attempt. The oil and coal tar-tariffs were retained, 204 to 188. The bill as finally approved, Is expected to yield $1,262,900,000, including $200,000,000 reductions in federal expenditures. This is $21,900,000 in excess of the $1,241,000,000 said to be needed to balance the budget in the fiscal year 1933. These are the estimates of the ways and means committee. Estimates of Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills are that the bill, as finally approved by the house, will yield $1,152,900,000, but this includes only $125,000,000 reductions in federal expenditures. This sum is SBB,100,000 less than enough to balance the budget. FOUR GIVEN PARDONS: 47 GRANTED PAROLES Sullivan Banker Refused Clemency by Trustees. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind„ April 2. —Trustees of Indiana, state prison granted four pardons and 47 of 84 parole petitions in their sessions Friday and today. Pardons were granted to George Arthur, Lake county, 10-20 years, burglary; Charles Cook, Dubois county, 2 years, burglary; Nick Maljeh. Lake county, 1-2 years, liquor; George Mooney, Vanderburg county, 2 years, statutory. Petition of Jesse Bollinger. Sullivan banker, 2 to 14 years, was refused. Marion county paroles denied were to Luther Jackson, 2-14 years, robbery: Andrcjv Just, 2-21 years, manslaughter, and Richard Applegate, 1-10. grand larceny. Cases of Roy Loomis, 1-10 years, grand larceny, and Douglas Johnson, 2-14 years, assault with intent to murder, were continued for thirty days. Both are from Marion county. ‘TRIPLE-BILL’ OFFERED Home Show, Polo Games, G. M. C. Exhibit Fairground Events. The state fairground tonight will be the scene of a triple-variety display that should satisfy any customer. At 7:30, gates of the annual realtors’ home complete exposition swing open. At 8 final matches in the ‘made work'’ polo games start in the coliseum and the General Motors Company is displaying its wares as part of a nation-wide exhibition in another building on the ground. ENGINEER IS SUICIDE Financial Worries Blamed for New York Man’s Act. By United Preia CHICAGO, April 2.—Despondency over financial difficulties today was blamed for the suicide of George W. Orcutt, middle-aged efficiency engineer for a New York concern, who shot himself in his automobile near Dyer, Ind., Friday. CONGRESS NEARING END Garner Predicts Adjournment by Jane 10 t Maybe June 1. By United Prcta WASHINGTON, April 26. Speaker Gamer today Predicted permanent adjournment of congress by June 10 at the latest, and possibly by June 1.

The Indianapolis Times Cloudy and probably unsettled tonight and Sunday; cooler.

VOLUME 43—NUMBER 281

City on Hill Sinks Into Cavern; 2,000 Homeless By United Press NAPLES, April 2.—Two thousand men, women and children whose homes caved in as the town -of Santa Stefano sank from a hilltop to oblivion in an underground cavern, lived in a tent city today. They hurriedly left their sinking homes, took all the household goods and other possessions they could carry and migrated into the tent town set up by troops dispatched to the region. Although the first indications of the fate of the town came suddenly with the unexpected cracking of numerous houses, the inhabitants were evacuated in safety. It was believed that infiltration of water into the porous ground on which Santa Stefano was built caused the formation of a huge cavern directly beneath the town. The town is about fifty miles from Cassino, in Terra di Lavor province, and about halfway between Rome and Naples. Experts believed that the original cavern under the town, now enlarged by the infiltration of water for many years, might have been dug out after the Roman epoch to extract tufa, a substance used extensively as building material in many districts around Rome.

Baby Flier By United Free* FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, April 2.—Rudi Lang, 5Vi years old, expects to be the first child to crosß the the Atlantic in an airship, and the youngest passenger to make a 7,001-mile flight from here to Buenos Aires by airship and airplane. Rudi will fly here in a passenger airplane from Stuttgart Sunday and board the Graf Zeppelin for Pernambuco, Brazil, early Monday, He will fly from Pernambuco to Buenos Aires, where his parents will meet him.

SHANGHAI WAR AGAIN LOOMS Powers Strengthen Lines Around Settlement. By United Press GENEVA, April 2.—Defense positions along the international settlement in Shanghai are being strengthened owing to minor engagements along* the patrol lines, the League of Nations was advised today. United States, France, Great Britain and Italy all reported, through their military authorities in Shanghai, that the action was unway because of the engagements by both Japanes and Chinese armies. By United Press TOKIO, April 2.—Chinese guerilla forces today burned thirteen villages southeast of the Yentai colliery, which Japanese forces were guarding, according to advices received . here. LOSES IN DAMAGE SUIT Duvall’s Father-in-Law Denied Car Accident Claim. William Buser, father-in-law of John L. Duvall, former mayor, Friday lost his SSOO damage suit in superior court three when a jury returned a verdict for the defendant, Mrs. N. E. Stenzel, 529 East Twentyfifth street. He sought to recover as a result of damage inflicted on his automobile which was involved in an accident Dec. 1 with a car driven by Mrs. Stenzel at Forty-ninth street and Washington boulevard. DR. M’CULLOUGH HURT Becomes Confused in Street, Steps in Auto Path. Dr. W. T. McCullough, 52, of 4140 Carrollton avenue, was injured seriously today when he was struck by an automobile while crossing East Washington street in the 2600 block. Witnesses told police he became confused at tho approaching autos, and stepped backward into the path of a third, driven by Douglas Hudson, 31, of Vicksburg, Ind. Hudson i was not arrested. THREE HOMES LOOTED Auto Also Ransacked; Cash, Goods Worth SIOO Obtained. Thieves looted three homes and an auto Friday night and obtained cash and goods valued at more than SIOO, police said today. Thefts were reported by the following; M. W. Wareing, 623 East Seventeenth street, unestimated; Mrs. Maggie Harper, 1129 North Arsenal | avenue, sls; Stanley Morgan, Pine i .street and Fletcher avenue. SB. and Robert Gates, 56 North Jefferson avenue, SSO. HIP FRACTURE. FATAL Benedict Cleary Succumbs to Street Car Injuries. A hip fracture suffered two weeks ago by Benedict Cleary, 69, of 1123 Woodlawn avenue, caused his death I today in the Indiana Christian hospital. He suffered the injury when he fell while walking to a seat on > a street car.

PINCHOT PREDICTS POLITICAL UPRISING OF COMMON PEOPLE

By United Press CLEVELAND, April 2—A bitter denunciation of wealth concentrated through political machinations, and a warning “common people" might rise up in rebellion and wrest control of the government from the capitalists, were delivered today by Governor Gifford Pinchot, in an address before the City Club, Facing an audience composed of many of Ohio’s influential political and professional leaders in open forum, Pinchot pictured in the offing a political revolution as “far reaching and as badly needed" as that of 1776.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1932

KRAUSE BONDS ARE FORFEITED Lottery Operator’s Absence Costs Friends $3,500. Bond of $3,500 in the case of John L. Krause, convicted in municipal court of operating a lottery, was forfeited in criminal court today by Judge Frank P. Baker. Krause appealed to the county court and was scheduled to appear Dec. 31 for a hearing, but failed to do so. Baker then granted a sixtyday delay to give bondsmen opportunity to locate Krause. The period ended today, but Krause was absent. Signers of the bond and extent of their liability are William R. Drinkard, and wife, Mabel, 815 East Twenty-fourth street, $1,500, and George Mater, 701 Haugh street, $2,000. Krause was fined a total of $2,000 and sentenced to the penal farm for 180 days several months ago by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. Drinkard, alleged associate of Krause in lottery operations, today obtained dismissal of his appeal from a municipal court sentence of SIOO fine and thirty-day penal farm term. H. G. Meister, another alleged associate, was fined SIOO and costs, which was suspended. 6 HELPLESSLY WATCH MAN GO OVER FALLS Victim, Believed Buffalo Chiropractor, Wades Into Stream. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS, April 2.—A man who waded into the Niagara river opposite Prospect Point while six persons looked on, was swept over the falls today. A United States veterans bureau letter found in a pocket of the man’s coat, was addressed to Loren F. Impey. An employe at the veterans’ bureau in Buffalo told reservation police Impey was a Buffalo chiropractor. Witnesses saw the man clamber over the railing along the river and wade into the shallow, but swift, stream, and as he reached the main currents, they caught him and whirled him toward the falls, only a few hundred feet away. The man made no attempt to save himself, the witnesses said, and did not even shout.‘BUY A CAR, CREATE JOBS,’ SAYS HOOVER Industry Big Employment Factor, President Declares. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 2.—Buy a new automobile and relieve unemployment, President Hoover told the American people today. He said: “The motor manufacturing companies all have launched their spring models. There is nothins that provides widespread employment more than automobile coir*i struction. Every person contemi plating buying anew car this year can make a real contribution to employment by putting in his order | now, even though he does not take immediate delivery.’’

Divorces Wife, Charging His Son Won Her Love Youth called to youth, and a 63-year-old husband today divorced his wife, 27, alleging he lost her to his son, 31, a defendant in a $15,000 alienation of affections suit filed by the father. Testifying in superior court three, the husband, Nicholas Van DeKalashorst of Lawrence, said his wife, Mary, had. confessed her love for his son. Richard, and declared they were to be married as soon as a divorce was granted. Taking the witness stand in support of a cross-complaint, the wife said her aged husband told her he did not marry her for love, but to take the place of a daughter he lost by death. The couple was married in Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 29, 1926 and separated Jan. 1, 1932. Special Judge Ernest Frick who heard the divorce case, granted Mrs. Van DeKalashorst that her maiden name, Wunder, be restored. The alienation of affections suit is on file in superior court four.

i The depression, he said, is exploding the popular myth that wealth best guides the destinies 1 of our country. He accused the administration i of "the shocking” defeat of the Costigan-La Follette relief bill because its passage "would have cost them (the capitalists) a little of their previous fortunes.” And he ascribed the defeated sales tax proposals to Democratic and Republican reactionaries in behalf of wealthy interests, : “¥~'OR years the big fellows have X 1 walked arm in arm with poli itics,” the Governor said. "For

7 MASSACRED BY BANDITS AT BORDER RANCH Mexican Gang Invades U. S. Territory, Spreads Terror, Escapes. CONSIDER TROOPS CALL Stand Family Against Wall and Open Fire After Demanding Cash. By United Press BERINO, N. M„ Atfril 2.—Military action was considered today after cold-blooded raiders crossed the border, swooped down on a defenseless, isolated ranch, stood the rancher and his family against the ranch house, then shot them down, killin gseven and wounding one. The victims were members of a wealthy, pioneer, Mexican-American family. Three bandits, in an automobile, drove up to the big dairy ranch of Melquiadez Espinosa, near here, Friday night. The ten members of the Espinosa family were preparing to retire. The trio roused them, and, posing as New Mexican officials, gained entrance to the ranch house. Once inside they drew guns, terrorized the family, and demanded $5,000 in cash. Espinosa recently had sold a herd of cattle and the bandits believed he had the money hidden on the ranch. Open Fire on Family i They also demanded a bill of sale i ; for another herd of cattle. Espinosa protested and declared the money was not on the ranch. Almost without another word, the three opened fire on the ten members of the family, huddled to- ! gether in the big living room of the |adobe ranch house. A few seconds later the place was [ a shambles. Filomena Espinosa, 48, and her I five children, Louis, 32; Hipolito, 26; Andres, 23; Juanita, 12, and Felipa, 9, were killed with first barrage of shots fired by the trio. Vincente Espinosa, 19, dropped to the floor with four bullets in his back. He died later in an El Paso i hospital. j Melquiadez Espinosa, head of the family, saved his life when he | teigned death after a bullet had | grazed his head. He dropped to the j floor and lay still alongside the i bodies of his family. Killing Carefully Planned | His mother, a blind woman, and | his wife, both aged women, dropped j to the floor and were shielded from j the killers’ bullets by the bodies that • lay massed about them. The raiders, in an automobile believed stolen, rode twenty-five miles | into United States territory for the sortie. The Espinosa ranch, a great tract j of land near here, is only ten miles! [ from the largest interestate highway i j in this section. The raid apparently | j had been planned carefully. , After the killing, the three men ! jumped into the automobile, and I headed toward the Mexican border and safety. A week ago today, Mayor Louis Ravel of Columbus, N. M., demanded protection from the marauding bands of bandits who, apparently emboldened by lack of concerted resistance, have made a half dozen forrays across the border near there in the last month. “We have been living in terror for j a month,” Ravel telegraphed Gov- | ernor Arthur Seligman of New MexI ico, demanding protection of troops. It was at Columbus that Pancho Villa and his bandit mob raided, in his 1916 raids which led to the American invasion of Mexico by the j army under command of General John J. Pershing. Berino is about fifty miles east of Columbus. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m+... 57 10 a. m 69 7a. m 58 11 a. m 71 Ba. m 64 12 (noon).. 73 I 9a. m 66 Ip. m 74

years these men’ have ordered, bought and paid for the government policies and government practices that have guided this nation’s course. “For years the American people have been lulled into the false faith that our natural affairs w’ere best left in the hands of these men. “But the time of indifference seems to be about over. The de- , pression is responsible for that. ! The beautiful dream that naI tional affairs have been run by i concentrated wealth in the best interests of the plain people is i wearing away. Big business heads

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RADIUM PERILS JIMMY WALKER N j ;h Mayor One of Those Taking Water Treatments. By United Press NEW YORK, April 2.—Prominent citizens in many communities, including Mayor James J. Walker of New York, were listed today as users of radium water solutions now under federal and medical investigation as result of Eben M. Byers’ death. An autopsy late Friday definitely revealed that Byers died as result of radium poisoning. Dr. Charles Norris, chief county medical examiner said. “And it will take two months to determine exactly how it affected him.” Fates decreed that the wealthy should be listed almost exclusively as users of the compounds involved, whereas in the radium poison case which attracted nation-wide attention a few years ago, only the poor workmen who painted watch dials were affected. Lives of hundreds of users of the radium water solution are endangered, experts declared. Mayor Walker revealed that he had been using a form of radium water for his “rundown condition.” He intended to continue it, he said, for he did not believe it contained radium salts. 75,000 QUIT WORkIn MIDWEST COAL MINES Hope for Agreement Retained in Illinois and Indiana. i By United Press CHICAGO, April 2.—Quiet reigned over a large share of the nation’s coal fields today—the quiet of stilled machinery and idle men. Wage disagreements have thrown 75,000 men out of work in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia. And in Kentucky a long-standing dispute grew more bitter. Illinois union heads and operators prepared for the fifth week of negotiation for anew wage contract. The Illinois shutdown was occasioned by failure to agree on the basis of compensation for 41,000 union workers, who thus far have refused a reduction from the old scale of $6.10 a day. Indiana shaft mines were affected similarly, but unlike Illinois owners, Indiana operators contemplated continuing production with nonunion workers. Indiana block and strip mines will operate on the old scale. AL IN RACE TO STAY’ i Former Governor Denies He Will Quit Before Convention. By United Press NEW YORK, April 2.—Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, intendeds to stay in the fight to the finish. He denied today he intends to withdraw from the race in advance of the Chicago convention. | QUITS DEMOCRATIC JOB I Gerard Resigns as Treasurer of National Committee. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 2.—James W. Gerard today advised the clerk of the house of his resignation as treasurer of the Democratic national committee.

in public life are not always the great and good men they have been proclaimed. “This depression yet may kindle a poiltical readjustment as fas reaching and as badly needed as that w’hich freed the American colonies from the economic tyranny of eighteenth century England. “The tyranny of concentrated wealth is just as vicious and just as real today. There is not even a political excuse for its existence among the democratic people of a self-governing nation.” Pinchot called upon voters to u revolt.

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Charlotte Holstone, 18 months, of 5259 Broadway, wanders away from her mother to the pigeons cluttering the walk. She tries to catch them as you can see in the photo. But she misses just like little folk always do trying to catch up with life. But it's springlike and who wants to catch life—when the pigeons come down?

Back of the ‘Great Wall’ > in Kentucky First of a series of three powerful articles on actual conditions in the coal mining region of Kentucky, where authorities are trying to solve an economic problem by suppression of civil rights, written by an eyewitness, will appear Monday in The Times. The series will includfe: 1. What those eastern college students would have found if they had not been barred from the coal fields. 2. How the miners live. 3. The strange manner in which business men and others of the mining region are trying to solve a tangled economic and human problem. Starts Monday in The Times.

LYNCH TEXAS NEGRO Whites Exact Vengeance in Attempted Assault. By United Press CROCKETT, Tex., April 2.—Dave Tillus, 52-year-old negro identified as the man who attempted to atttack a white woman near here this week, was lynched Friday night by a party of white men, it was revealed today. Tillus’ body was found hanging to a tree fifteen miles from here on the San Antonio highway. It .was the first lynching in Texas in nearly two years.

KENTUCKIAN BACKS STUDENT PROBERS

Merchant Flays Bullying Tactics Used by Mob Led by Prosecutor. By United Press MIDDLESBORO, Ky., April 2. A Bell county business man has sided with eastern college students in their protest of treatment received during an attempted investigation of the coal mining region in this district. H. R. Giles, city commissioner and prominent merchant, denounced Walter B. Smith, prosecuting attorney, for his examination of the students at the state line and the courthouse here. Giles said he was on Cumberland mountain when the student bus was halted and the students ordered out by Smith “so that we can see what these things look like.” “Using rocks as breastworks, men behind them were armed with enough big guns, pistols and ammunition to have battled successfully a whole army of thugs,” the commissioner said. “If that gathering of around 2,000 hecklers and ruffians from three counties —including many of the worst characters, who had been deputized, filled with liquor and armed to the teeth, constituted law and order and Kentucky bravery and chivalry, then I don’t know what rank cowardice and lawlessness is." Giles charged a deputy, John Wilson, cursed and struck a boy student '

“T WANT to see the American A people rise and vote themselves back to a government of, by and for the American people,” he said. “I want to see them put an end to government of, by and for concentrated wealth. “I can not understand why the American people, once they know j the facts about the sort of government they have been getting and paying for, should let themselves be trampled on much longer.” He derided the White House business conferences 4>f business | leaders to map out depression j remedies.

LINDY SEARCH TURNS TO SEA Baby Is Reported Held on Boat for Ransom. By United Press NEW YORK, April 2.—Hope for return of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., kidnaped more than a month ago—turned to the sea today with new reports that the child was safe aboard a boat beyond the twelve-mile limit. The Staten Island Advance in a copyright article said United States immigration authorities had been advised the baby was safe on a small boat, and would be returned at mid-sea to a larger vessel, possibly a freighter, after ransom had been paid. The United Press, meantime, learned authorities are proceeding on the theory that the child is on a vessel at sea, alive. Ransom demands, it was hinted, have been increased beyond the original $50,000 asked in the note left in the nursery. Statement that the kidnaped son of Charles A. Lindbergh has been burned and the body hidden “in southern Indiana,” is contained in a letter received Friday by Police Chief Mike Morrissey from Vienna, Austria, Morrissey revealed today. The letter was written in German. A translation was made and the original missive sent to Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf of the New Jersey state police, who is in charge of the search for the child.

Soviet Plans Eugene Lyons, United Press staff correspondent at Moscow, will present in The Times Monday the first of a series of articles describing the Soviet program for the second fiveyear plan and accomplishments so far in the first fiveyear plan. Lyons has written a vivid, dramatic word picture of the sacrifices and struggles of Russia’s teeming millions during the fight to make the first plan a success. He tells of the new and even greater sacrifices and hardships these same millions face in carrying out the second plan as outlined by Soviet leaders. Watch for the first of these articles in The Times Monday.

SWALLOWS HIS FORTUNE Frenchman Kills Self by Taking His Money With Him. : By United Press LYONS, France, April 2.—Jean | Coiffier, 42, attempted to commit suicide and take his money with I him. He succeeded in killing himself by swallowing his life savings which consisted of several 1,000, 100,10 and 5 franc notes. An autopsy was performed and the notes were recovered. EYES REPUBLICAN POST Earl C. Townsend Enters Race for County Chairmanship. Seeking overthrow of factional Republicanism in the county, Earl C. Townsend, 43, of 6120 East Washington street, has announced his candidacy for the G. O. P. county chairmanship at the reorganization following the May primary. in c orporatieYaxgr ou p Papers Are Filed for Indiana Justice j -- Association. Indiana Association for Tax Justice, formed Feb. 14 to sponsor legislation for greater government economy, became a corporation today with filing of incorporation papers Friday with the v secretary .of state.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

INCREASES IN WATER RATES TO BEFOUGHT Schedule Change Declared Illegal Without Hearing for Consumers. TWO VOICE DISSENT Commissioners Ellis and Singleton Disagree With Cuthbertson. Charges that 25,000 Indianapolis Water Company consumers have had their rates increased without a hearing, and that the compromise settlement is illegal, were made today by dissenting public service commissioners, who refused to approve the order. The order was written by Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson. and passed by a three to two decision Friday afternoon. Commissioners Howell Ellis and Frank Singleton, objectors, today launched their attack on the legality of the order in statements filed with the case. This action puts the rate schedule again in doubt, as Cuthbertson announced that he is rewriting the order, and held a long conference with Joseph J. Daniels, water company attorney. Rates Are Boosted Ellis’ statement carries a setup of monthly bill payments showing that, under the Cuthbertson compromise, rates to consumers will be increased as follows: On the 800 cubic-foot step rate, 7 cents; 900, 15 cents; 1,000. 22 cents; 1,500, 60 cents; 2,000, 97 cents; 5,000, $2.77; 10,000, $4.2720,000, $6.07, and 30,000, $7.57. “I do not believe economic conditions warrant an increase in the cost of water to any class of consumers in Indianapolis,” Ellis commented. “If a rate reduction is to be made, it should be accomplished without increase to a single consumer. A mere adjustment of schedules, reducing some and increasing others, has been proposed. Would Halt Schedule / “The rates of all consumers using more than 700 cubic feet of water would be increased under the guise of a reduction to minimum consumers using 500 civic feet or less. “I suggest no increased rate schedules for awter service in Indianapolis be put into effect until there has been a thorough investigation, to determine the actual effect on the company’s revenues, by commission or other disinterested accountants. This has not been done.” Incdeased rates will apply to consumers in large residences, apartment houses, barbar shops, beauty parlors, groceries, drug stores, laundries, manufacturing concerns, and, in fact, for every user of more than 700 cubic feet, he said. “I question legality and propriety of increasing rates without a public hearing in which the question of increased rates is at issue,” Ellis concluded. “Such hearing as has been held in this matter was in connection with a petition for a reduction of rates only.” Calls Increases Dlegal Singleton’s statement sets out that he is in agreement with the reductions, but not the increases, and terms the increases illegal. “It is my view that no Increase in rates of public utilities is lawful without opportunity for patrons su affected to be heard and without evidence taken in public hearing tending to warrant the increase in rates,” he said. All commissioners approved the Indianapolis Power and Light Company compromise settlement, effeced by Cuthbertson, on the ground that no increased rates were involved. Greatest benefit from the compromises comes to the city, with a saving in water and electric bills equivalent to a 2-cent tax levy. Maximum possible saving to a water consumer would be 42 cents a month, by reduction of the minimum from $1.50 to SI.OB, the old amount being 700 cubic feet and the new 500. Saving Is Small Maximum possible saving to an electric consumer would be 12t= cents a month, or $1.50 a year, by reducing the first 50 KWH from 6(2 cents to 614 cents. No change was made above that amount. Both the Indianapolis Water Company and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company benefit by avoiding audits and appraisals on a reproduction basis at the present prices by making miniature sacrifices. The water company is shouldering only $55,000 of the $66,000 reduction in the city’s bill, the difference being made up by the rate increases. Light c<*ipany revenues will be [reduced by $164,985.93 a year, according to Cuthbertson’s figures.

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